today's howtos
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The Ultimate Guide to i3 Customization in Linux
Learn about customizing your system's look and feel with i3 window manager in this super-detailed guide.
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How To Install Fedora 38 [A Step By Step Guide]
Fedora Linux 38 has been released a few days ago! If you are a newbie who wants to install and test the latest version of Fedora, then we are here to help you in setting up Fedora 38 desktop operating system. This step by step guide explains how to download the latest Fedora 38 workstation edition, and then how to install Fedora 38 with screenshots.
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Wikit – A Command Line Tool to Search Wikipedia on Linux
Wikit is a free and open-source command-line program for easily viewing Wikipedia summaries of search queries on the Linux command line; it is built using Nodejs.
The verb Wikit (derived from “wikipedia it“) means looking up something on wikipedia.org, the popular and remarkable open-source encyclopedia on the Internet.
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Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH
In my "Capturing text screens on modern operating systems" article published back in 2013, I mentioned finding a very promising program called Qodem. It has since reached maturity and version 1.0 was released in 2017. I have been enjoying it on a regular basis to reminisce about the glorious days of using Terminate and Minicom in the nineties, and even packaged it in both OpenBSD and NetBSD.
Qodem has built in support for SSH, and also lets you spawn a local shell and SSH from there, which allows authentication using SSH keys.
For the purpose of this article, I used two Fedora machines and installed the ckermit and lrzsz packages to handle the Kermit and ZMODEM protocols respectively. There is a qodem package as well, but it only bundles the X11 binary. I prefer to use the curses version, so I built it from source.